WALTER M. EVANS, Esq., was born July 22, 1828. His father, John Evans, was born in 1800, near Bloomfield, was a wagon-wright by vocation, and died of cholera in 1833. He was the son of James Evans, a Virginian, and a pioneer of Kentucky. John Evans espoused in marriage, Mary, daughter of Zach. Wilkinson, of Nelson County. She was born in 1802, and died of cholera at the time of her husband's death. From their union sprang Albert, John L., Melissa (Forman), Walter M., Redman and Rebecca (Blackmore). On May 10, 1853, Walter M. was united in the bonds of matrimony to Miss Sarah L., daughter of Andrew and Nancy (McCormick) Oliphant, of Nelson County (born in Washington County, Ohio, April 24, 1834), and to them have been born Dr. Andrew H., Willie P. (deceased), M. Fannie, Walter Lee, Ewing Oliphant, Edward Spencer and Nancy McCormick. In 1882 Walter M. Evans was elected magistrate and member of the court of claims of Nelson, his native county, and has always taken an active interest in public improvements, especially in thoroughly turnpiking the county roads. Having been left an orphan in early childhood, he had a hard time in youth; he was hard pressed and taxed for the profits of others, by severe labor and unremitting toil. By his own exertions he obtained a limited education, and, appreciating its advantages, is endeavoring to furnish better facilities for his children. Squire Evans is a farmer, owning 240 acres of productive and well improved land on Cox's Creek. In religion he is a Baptist and in politics a Democrat.